Marcus Coates
A Ritual for Elephant and Castle (2010)
THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
The 17th Biennale of Sydney.
Artspace
43 - 51 Cowper Wharf Road
Woolloomooloo NSW 2011
Sydney Australia
www.artspace.org.au
12th May / 1st August 2010
www.biennaleofsydney.com.au
Marcus Coates presents a new installation, A Ritual for Elephant and Castle (2010), at Artspace. The piece involves footage of a live musical performance with London-based music collective Chrome Hoof in 2009, alongside scenes of Coates, accompanied by a stuffed buzzard and a trombone, responding to redevelopment plans in the area of London's Elephant and Castle. We see him engaging with the local inhabitants in a shamanistic act of comic yet sincere public service.
image:
Marcus Coates
Vision Quest with Chrome Hoof, Heygate Estate, London, 2009
digital c-type print
115 x 163 cms, 45.31 x 64.22 inches
(MC0102)
Photography: Nick David, Produced by Nomad
Courtesy of the artist and Workplace Gallery, UK
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